Occupancy sensing

Motion sensors that control lights according to space occupancy. Passive infrared sensors are the most common. Ultrasonic sensors work better in places with partitions. Sensors have sensitivity and time-out adjustments to fine-tune their use. Wall box sensors with internal switches or dimmers are used for small rooms. Multiple sensors are needed for larger spaces. Energy credit for their use are substantial, and the payback is short for retrofit applications.

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Murata's fixture-integrated sensor combines occupancy sensing, daylight harvesting, 0-10V analog dimming and Bluetooth mesh radio circuits in conjunction with Silvair's Bluetooth mesh stack into a small cylindrical package.

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Their experimental studies not only demonstrate the feasibility of IT based implicit occupancy sensing but also reveal that the IT based implicit methods are able to detect beyond simple occupant counts: they are also able to detect occupants' location and activities.

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Bruce Nordman of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, plus Ken Christensen of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida, and other colleagues from those institutions and the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, explain how implicit occupancy sensing can be undertaken using existing IT infrastructure.

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